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Lately there has been a lot of discussion around conferences in the tech world and the amount of female representation on the panels. Whilst this has been an issue for years (check out this post by Sara Williams on our site from 2011 and make some time to read the great comments as well ).
The issue really came into the public domain recently when Rebecca Rosen wrote this piece on the Panel Pledge in The Atlantic.
Yesterday’s annoying article-of-the-day has to have been Richard Hillgrove’s piece in the Guardian in which he lays out his vision for social networking sites in the aftermath of the Ryan Giggs comedy road show.
You can talk and think about stuff for ages and ages before doing something or other. Why not just do something straight away and learn from that?
London was basking in unexpected sunshine and Tim Malbon (aka @malbonster) and I were wolfing down some fish and chips in Soho. His off-the-cuff comment stopped me cold – chip halfway to mouth – and in one way or another I have been thinking about it ever since (it was 6 months ago!).
‘Doing over planning‘ might be the simplest way to summarise the Agile philosophy that Made by Many so fervently pursues (a great non-tech articulation of the Agile approach to web apps is Getting Real by 37 Signals).
Randall Rothenberg’s recent blog post, “‘A Bigger Idea’: A Manifesto on Interactive Advertising Creativity“, about the state of interactive advertising is really inspiring. It’s been open in one of my 27 browser tabs for about 2 weeks now and I’ve been dipping in and out and slowly digesting. That’s because it’s an exceptionally rich and filling meal. It’s 5,000 words, not 140 characters.
